David Peterson

And then I moved to this new environment among all of these really, really smart people.

And it was probably the next best thing that happened to me in my career after getting fired 16 years ago was getting around people that are way smarter than me.

And understanding that, you know what?

I don't know anything.

that I actually thought I knew because there's more than one way to skin a cat.

And a lot of these folks are really good in adjacent industries, in some of them in our industry, and being willing to step back and be humble and learn again, it was the reset that I needed.

I actually, I got too into my own success to realize that

there's always somebody better than you.

And so, and I think you said this earlier,

I don't want to be the smartest person in the room.

I want to be the exact opposite.

I want to surround myself with people.

And that's in life and business.

It's amazing.

And I did realize that I had kind of plateaued and wasn't reaching for anything more because I thought I knew it.

And we don't know shit.

We don't.

And as soon as you think you know what you're doing, I think you're going to start to go the wrong direction.

As soon as you think that you know all the answers,

is when your decline begins.